CMS Thesis Day 2020!

Join us as we host our class of ’20 Comparative Media Studies graduate students as they present their master’s theses (virtually this year, sigh). View live via Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oxtCd1DyTy6VglFFEy6jDQ. Presentation order subject to change.

• Sam Mendez, “Health Equity Rituals: A Case for the Ritual View of Communication in an Era of Precision Medicine”
• Annie Wang, “Creators, Classrooms, and Cells: Designing for the Benefits and Limitations of Learning In Immersive Virtual Reality”
• Bueno Bojczuk Camargo, “Connecting Brazilian Rural Schools to the ‘Global Village’: A Critical Assessment of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC-1)”
• Han Su, “Theory and Practice Towards A Decentralized Internet”
• Anna Chung, “Avoiding “The Algorithm”: Examining anti-algorithmic practices on social media and designing for user agency on algorithm-driven platforms”
• Ben Silverman, “Fursonas: Furries, Community, and Identity Online”
• Elizabeth Borneman, “Data Visualizations for Perspective Shifts and Community Cohesion”
• Judy Heflin, “The Poetics of Latent Space: Computer-generated Literature and the Vectorized Word”